Your way of thinking will decide heaven or hell bound

The mission we are undertaking (3)

Sun Myung Moon March 16, 1975

Tarrytown, New York, Translated by Won Pok Choi

Your way of thinking will decide whether you are heaven-bound or hell-bound.

Once you have decided on the goal you must be determined to obtain the goal. On the way, you must be ready to go over obstacles until you win the goal. If we mobilize with an all-out effort and concentrate on what we are doing, then if there were any way possible, we would do it in leaps and bounds to go over the obstacle to reach the goal in the soonest possible time.

Isn't that what you want? (Yes!) Instead of going a zigzag way, making detours, if you can jump, making leaps, wouldn't you prefer that way? (Yes!) If I leave you alone on the individual level, you are sure to think of your old days, your old friends, your lovers, your sweethearts, and so you will take a circuitous route. You will not cover a long distance.

If the other way is faster, then I would get hold of you and never let you think of any other thing, never let you look at any other thing, and drive you so hard as to make you cover longer distance than you would do if you were left alone. Which of the two ways would you choose? Would you rather go the way on the individual level or as a group making leaps and bounds? (Group!) Which way is more effective? You know.

In the Madison Square Garden project, would it have been good for you to have proceeded on the individual level or as a group to bring more people at a time in great buses? That means to go by leaps. Would you rather make the next jump higher than the previous one or lower? It is natural for everyone to think that it is better to have longer leaps.

It is natural for you to want to make bigger jumps. What is our next project? (Yankee Stadium) In proportion to the height you covered previously you will descend with more power. Do you really want that? (Yes!) Then, whom would you want to have in front of you? Would you want to have the Washington group ahead of you, New York or Los Angeles? (New York!)

You say New York because you are New York Family. If I ask the same question of Washington D.C. members, they would say Washington, and Los Angeles Family, Los Angeles. The formation of the bullet is like that. Which will be on the pointed part? The bullet cannot go the roundabout way, but must go straight ahead. Who will do the job, again? (New York!)

If you are ahead of others on that point then you will be exposed to more wind. Would that be all right? (Yes!) The speedier it flies, the shorter it becomes, and you might be melted away. Would that be OK? (Yes!) When you say it is OK, it means that you want to do that, and when you say that you want to do that, that means that you want to help me push you towards that goal? (Yes!)

From whom would it begin? From New Yorkers. United you will become one bullet, but would you have that bullet fly the speediest way or not? (Yes!) So if you want to do that right from this moment, hold up your hands. All right. I did not look at you when you raised your hands, but you did that in pledge before God.

I do not mind, you keep your pledge. I may have to close my eyes and get a big stick with closed eyes; if I keep doing that in New York center, I will find none of them there because all would have already gone out on the street.

As you see, our next goal is bigger than the previous one. You must have a sense of mission towards that greater goal. Would you cover 100% of it, or less than 100%? (More!) Do you know that to fill up the whole place we will have to mobilize 200,000 people? Would you have minus one or plus one? (Plus!)

That difference will make the project either a success or a failure. Did the New York Times and other papers say that Madison Square Garden was a success or a failure? (Success!) A great success? (Yes!) How many times more would that be than Madison Square Garden? How many times more than 200,000 will you bring to Yankee Stadium?

Well, the more the number the more the people will be appalled and surprised at you. Are you confident to do that? (Yes!) You must have the confidence and heaven will help you. Are you sure that you are going to have the confidence? (Yes!) Then there is no question that we can bring 200,000 spectators. How many more people can you bring? That is the question.

Do you know what karate is? There is a Korean resident in Japan, by the name of Mr. Oyama, who can break 50 layers of bricks. What allows him to do that? His spirit, when given power does that. He did that as if he was splitting water apart. If he has no confidence, and said to himself, "I cannot break it," he cannot. But if his spirit says "I can do it," he can.

If each one of you thinks that there is no question of our bringing several times more than the seating capacity, you can do it. If you have no confidence, you will fail to do it. So I want you to have the confidence. Are you confident? (Yes!) Really? (Yes!) Really? (Yes!) Really? (Yes!) Then I can trust you. Each one of you must be determined to do the job all by yourself.

Each one of you, on the individual level, must be determined to go about from place to place in the whole city of New York every day, all through the day. Even though you are physically exhausted, in spirit you must be roaming around the whole city 24 hours a day. Every day you will cover more area than the day before. You must break your record every day.

If you have two prospective comers today, then you must have three or more tomorrow and still more the day after tomorrow. That's the way you should be operating. Statistically the one who broke the record in bringing people to Madison Square Garden will be recorded in our history and the same thing will be done for Yankee Stadium.

The one who will have broken the record for Yankee Stadium will in the future be in ecstasy whenever he looks at the articles or pictures about Yankee Stadium. And even God cannot but be proud of you. Then at the Washington campaign my seven-year history in the United States will be concluded. The ones who will have broken the records there will be long remembered by me and by God.

In the future, when we want to gain fame all over the world we will employ your names for that purpose. For the MFT members too, those who will have set the highest record will be recorded. People of the world will be appalled at the records you will have set, and they will hold up their hands saying, "We cannot fight against these people, we are already defeated!"

Would you want to have them do that, or have them defeat you? (Have them surrender!) It is my wish and my ambition to have you leave a record that no one can ever surpass. Why? Because it is my lifetime goal in leading you, and without doing it, if I go to the spirit world I cannot lift my face before God. Can you understand my heart? (Yes!)

This morning I assign each one of you to that job. That is the greatest job in the whole world assigned by God through me. You must be strongly determined that even though you may be able to set up higher, still higher records in the days to come, you may never fall back and do less than what you have been doing.

After having made the Yankee Stadium project our success alone we can make another leap towards the Washington campaign. If the Yankee Stadium project ends in failure, what will happen to the next step? If you make the Yankee Stadium project a failure, I may have to leave this country without going through with the final project.

If that is what is going to happen then there will be no future for America. So, knowing God's anxiety to save this nation, I'm desperate to do that and have you to carry it out at all costs. This is not a battle of life and death on the worldwide level alone, but on the cosmic level, and I want you to conquer the enemy in battle.

That is our goal, we are dashing forward towards the goal, and the Commander-in-Chief is Father. You are all the soldiers following my command. Numerous cannon balls, numerous bullets will come from you. The words coming from out of mouths are cannon balls and bullets and by touching the hearts of the people with our bullets, you can have them to come to hear Father.

Whenever we have that kind of big assembly, it is like a bullet. Being on the battlefield, it is natural for us to have to shed blood and tears and sweat. With that strategy, it is our destiny to go ahead on the battlefield. Can you do that? (Yes!)

The IOWC, the International One World Crusade, is now working in Japan. Our 360 members on the mobile team are working day and night, 24 hours. Everyday each one of the 360 are supposed to bring three or more people to a meeting, and one person during the period of one week will be made into a solid member.

Are New York members going to be defeated by them or conquer them? (Conquer them!) Especially here we have Japanese brothers and sisters. Before long you are leaving for your own country. With three more years ahead of you, you are going to fight the final battle here. Even though you started out all right, if you end up a failure, before you leave, I will kick you out of this country. Then I will erase the history of your activities in this nation. That's what will happen. That's why I assembled all the Japanese members in New York to concentrate on this project.

When you first crossed the Pacific Ocean to come to America you did not dream of enjoying life in the United States, but you were determined to shed your tears, your blood and your sweat for the heavenly cause. In order to keep you in this country we had to go through a lot of bitter opposition from the people in this nation and especially from the immigration officials.

I would welcome it as long as you are faithful in this movement. You are doing ordinary things that will not arouse their attention, but if you are like bullets, all fired and piercing through the hearts of the people and become conspicuous in the human scene and in the United States, then you are going to be recognized by high government officials.

Then your stay here can be prolonged in the easiest way. As I understand it, there have been many cases of the blessed couples being accused by the American members. They find many faults in you. If you go on doing that I will kick you out and send you back to Japan. You are not here to rest. Without accomplishing your mission here, then you will have caused harm to the mission of Japan in the providence.

If you Japanese members cannot set the record here in three years' time there will be no hope for Japan to be saved in the latter days. That applies to Japan and Korea, too. By using Japan, Korea, and the Asiatic countries -- only if we protect this nation and set it on fire with the divine ideal, can we save the whole world. If not, we cannot.

I am the match and you are the kindling. If I set fire to you, you must burn and explode and change the world. With the match exposed to the wind I cannot set the fire slowly. I must do it very quickly. With that sense of mission you must go ahead desperately, striving more than when you came. Can you promise? Instead of being exhausted after Madison Square Garden, you must go up and up on this crest of power towards another goal still higher, still bigger.

If you are the other way around, as I have heard, then I will not leave you alone. Will that be okay? Japanese members don't be put to shame, because you are representing not only Japan, but the whole of Asia. The Unification Movement was created in the Asia. So you, representing Asia, must strive harder than the Americans and set up the tradition in this nation before you leave.

Seen from that viewpoint, you must do many times as much as the American members in Japan on the mobile team are now doing. Can you do that? Can you make a pledge before me? Hold up your hands. Why do you think I brought you here to New York? I assembled you in New York because I wanted you to prepare for the next campaign.

Just think, if Yankee Stadium was not under repair we could have done this event this year and not next year. It could have been April this year, which would not have left many days. I thought that if the project were this year, closer to Madison Square Garden, the better it would be because you could have done that on the crest of the power left after the Madison Square Garden project.

With that big goal far ahead of us, I can well imagine that the Japanese members have become relaxed and have forgotten about their great mission assigned by God through me. If you were not like that, then you could not have become lax. You must feel compassion for Mr. Kamiyama. If you fail to do the job, then he cannot ever lift his face before me.

I gave you strict orders to bring in 1,000 members, 3,000 members by the end of April; but are you attaining the goal? You are still alive. At the start, you were determined to do the job at the risk of your life, but you are still alive. Why don't you put more soul, more energy, your whole being into the project? The Japanese members are responsible for the witnessing, isn't that true?

The fundraising activities are being done by American members. In order to make it possible for you to do the job, the MFT is working desperately, earning the money to support you. Can you stay like this without meeting the goal? There is no other way possible for you to accomplish the goal if you don't do it at the risk of your life. Your purpose is to bring in more people, among who will be greater leaders than you yourself, so that you can leave the battle in their hands.

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